Gothic Ivories Project | Relief (appliqué); used as part of the binding of a book (Front)

Relief (appliqué); used as part of the binding of a book (Front)

Relief (appliqué); used as part of the binding of a book (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
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Cracow, Czartoryski Museum

Inv. 2387

Ivory;metal and gems (later)

Height: 133mm

Seated Virgin and Child; Christ standing on the Virgin's lap; Christ in long robe; crown.

Koechlin Number: 0682

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Not visible.

Object Condition
The crown seems to be a later replacement. Chipped around the lower part.

Comments
Set in a metal plaque decorated with gems which is being used as the front cover for a 14th-century French manuscript (Inv. 2387).

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 242, 244; II, no. 682.

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